Week 31

- April 28, 2018

REMINDERS

PANCAKE BREAKFAST on May 30th. Students will receive a pancake breakfast right after the morning bell: pancakes, sausage and fruit. Students can wear PJs and bring a stuffie for a school wide reading period right after the pancake breakfast.

WELLNESS DAY on May 2nd.

EARLY DISMISSAL on May 2nd.

DEVON PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR VISIT on May 3rd. Permission form on Powerschool.

WILHAUK BEEF JERKY ORDERS due May 4th. You can order on PowerSchool or print the attached form and send it in. This fundraiser is going towards Mathletics, student agendas, classroom extras, cultural events and supporting school events like Fun Day.

CLASS PHOTOS on May 8th.

BIKE SAFETY from May 14 to May 17th.

NO SCHOOL (PD DAY) on May 18th.

NO SCHOOL (VICTORIA DAY) on May 21st.

SWIMMING LESSONS from May 22 to June 1st.

LANGUAGE ARTS

LISTENING GAMES I read the book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle to 1C this week. Our phonological awareness activities were focused around the book this week. This is the delightful story of one very small and very hungry caterpillar who grows into a beautiful butterfly as he nibbles his way through the pages of the book. This exquisite book helps children learn about animals, numbers, the days of the week, and the importance of friendship and self-esteem.

WORDS THEIR WAY Throughout the week, the students reviewed the reviewed the consanant blends "pr" "dr" "tr" with words such as prince, pray, dragon, drum, track, trophy.

DAILY 5 The Grade 1's are working towards staying focused for 15 minutes during each of their centers during Daily 5. During Daily 5, they complete all of their centers including Read to Self, Read to Someone, Listening to Reading and Word Work. Keep up the hard work Grade 1!
While they reading the students are practicing the Tryin' Lion, Skippy Frog, Flip the Dolphin, Chunky Monkey, Stretchy Snake, Eagle Eye, Lips the Fish strategy.

Tryin' Lion Try it again! Re-read the sentence. Try a word that looks and sounds right.
Skippy Frog who skips the word. Reads to the end of the sentence. Hops back and re- reads the sentence.

Flip the Dolphin tries the short vowel. If it doesn't sound right, flip the sound to the long vowel and try it again.

Chunky Monkey looks for hunks and chunks they know inside a word.

Stretchy Snake reminds the students to "S-T-R-E-T-C-H" it out and to say each sound slowly then say it fast.

Eagle Eye serves as a reminder to look at the pictures for clues when reading a book.

Lips the Fish looks at the beginning and ending sound of a word.

HOME READING The books will be exchanged every Friday. You may also read books from home or the library, just make sure you log it! Our classroom goal is to read (or have a book read to us) at least 7 books per week.

LIBRARY Please bring back your child's library book each Monday so they may exchange it for a new one.

MATH

1C continues to practice to count by 2s to 20. You can practice skip counting by twos with your child at home for extra practice. Here is a video that we watch in class as part of a movement break and a review of counting by 2s: https://youtu.be/OCxvNtrcDIs

The students learned that addition and subtraction are related. 1C looked at the similarities and differences between the two and how a minus sign looks like. Next week we jump into subtraction up to 10.

SCIENCE

The students are combing their Fairy Tales unit in Language Arts with their Building unit. This week we read the story The Three Little Pigs and Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The students were challenged to build the three houses for the three little pigs. They used three materials: shredded paper, Lego blocks, and popsicle sticks.

The Brick House

The Straw House

Team Work!

The Wooden House

The next building challenge was to build a new chair for baby bear.

Jack in the Beanstalk Castles...we are watching our bean stalks grow!

We have some awesome builders in 1C!

SOCIAL STUDIES

On Monday, we talked about Earth Day and ways we can do our part to keep our planet clean and beautiful. They learned terms like reuse, reduce, and recycle. The students provided examples of responsibilities that they may have at school and at home. Next week, we will be discussing how we can help others and ways to be a good citizen.